16-letter words containing c, i, t, y
- minimum-security — (of a prison) designed for prisoners regarded as being less dangerous; having fewer restrictions.
- minority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the lesser part of the current in a semiconductor
- minute secretary — the person responsible for noting the minutes of a meeting
- misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
- misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
- mnemotechnically — In a mnemotechnic manner; using mnemotechny.
- monochromaticity — of or having one color.
- monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
- monotheistically — In a monotheistic manner.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- multi-way branch — switch statement
- multicellularity — The condition of being multicellular.
- multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
- narcissistically — having an undue fascination with oneself; vain.
- naturalistically — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
- neo-christianity — any interpretation of Christianity based on the prevalent philosophy of a given period.
- neurasthenically — In a neurasthenic way.
- neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
- nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
- non-conciliatory — tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments.
- non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- non-contingently — dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often followed by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather.
- non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nondiscretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- nuclear industry — the industry involving nuclear weapons, nuclear power stations, etc
- occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
- one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics) A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
- oneida community — a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.
- onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- opportunity cost — the money or other benefits lost when pursuing a particular course of action instead of a mutually-exclusive alternative: The company cannot afford the opportunity cost attached to policy decisions made by the current CEO.
- optical activity — the ability of a substance to rotate the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
- ornithologically — In terms of ornithology.
- orthographically — In an orthographical manner; using proper spelling, capitalization and grammar.
- orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
- oxycalcium light — calcium light.
- paleoclimatology — the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
- paradigmatically — of or relating to a paradigm.
- particle physics — the branch of physics that deals with the properties and behavior of elementary particles.
- pathetic fallacy — the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea.
- periodic tenancy — the letting of a dwelling for a repeated short term, as by the week, month, or quarter, with no end date
- perpendicularity — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- personality cult — deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader
- phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
- photoelectricity — electricity induced by electromagnetic radiation, as in certain processes, as the photoelectric and photovoltaic effects, photoconductivity, and photoionization.